Mrs. James Larr

Coshocton Tribune

October 31, 1949

Mrs. James Larr, 64, Coshocton Route r, died at Coshocton Memorial hospital
at 5:15 p.m. Monday following an illness of five weeks.

Florence Pepper was born in Conesville Augu. 14, 1885, a daughter of Alfred
and Emma Hummer Pepper.  On Dec 22, 1901, she was married to John A.
Hardesty, who died Feb. 12, 1942. She was married April 19, 1947, to James
W. Larr, who survives.

Also surviving are seven children by her first marriage, three daughters,
Mrs William Everhart, Stone Creek Route 1, Mrs William Lint, West Lafayette,
and Mrs. John Stephenson, Coshocton; four sons, William Hardesty, Fresno
Route 1, Telford Hardesty, Coshocton Route 1, Clifford and David Hardesty,
Coshocton Route 4; 17 grqandchildren and two great-grandchildren.  One son
and one daughter by her first marriage and one sister  and four brothers
preceded her in death.

Mrs. Larr was a member of the Branch Methodist church, where funeral
services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in charge of Rev. C. D. Firster.
Burial will be in the church cemetery.  Friends will be received at the home
on Coshocton Route 4, (East Chestnut St. ext.) after 7 this evening.

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Transcribed by Gwendolyn Hardesty Oliver